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Mitchell Young, 21, has been on trial for nearly two weeks, accused of fatally beating Robert Cipriano, 52, and nearly beating his wife and teenage son to death with a baseball bat in their Farmington Hills home.

Jurors decided Mitchell Young was an active participant in the fatal beating of Robert Cipriano, 52, and near fatal beating of Rose Cipriano, 51, and Salvatore, 18, in the early morning hours of April 16, 2012.(Photo: Regina H. Boone/Detroit Free Press)Buy Photo

Stoic to the end, Mitchell Young, 21, was found guilty of beating a Farmington Hills man to death with a baseball bat and nearly killing his wife and teenage son last year in a drug-fueled robbery attempt.

The six men and six women, who deliberated about 90 minutes this morning, avoided looking at the baby-faced defendant as they pronounced him guilty of all five counts: first-degree premeditated murder, first-degree felony murder, one count of felony murder, two counts of attempted murder and one count of armed robbery.

Young appeared dazed. As he was led from the courtroom, he mouthed, “I love you, too, Grandma,” to his grandmother — his only family member to attend the two-week trial. She left the courtroom in tears without talking to reporters.

Jurors decided Young was an active participant in the fatal beating of Robert Cipriano, 52, and near fatal beating of Rose Cipriano, 51, and Salvatore, 18, in the early morning hours of April 16, 2012.

Authorities said Young and Tucker Cipriano, the oldest child of Robert and Rose Cipriano, broke into the family’s home to steal money for drugs while high on synthetic marijuana. They then used baseball bats to attack family members in an attempt to eliminate witnesses, police said.

Two family members, Salvatore’s twin, Tanner, and their sister Isabella, now 9, escaped injury by hiding. Young was arrested inside the home, and Tucker Cipriano was arrested at a friend’s home hours later.

Tucker Cipriano pleaded no contest last week to felony murder. He and Young will both be sentenced to life in prison without parole on July 24.

Many of the Cipriano family members attended the trial. Tanner, Rose and Isabella were all on the prosecution witness list but didn’t appear in the courtroom and weren’t called to testify. Instead, prosecutors relied on other witnesses and physical evidence to build their case.

This afternoon, Robert Cipriano’s brother, Ron, issued a written statement from the family thanking the Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office, among others.

“We are glad the trial is over and that our family did not have to re-live the horrible experience by having to testify in it,” the statement said. “We believe the legal process worked the way it should have with the facts of the case presented. The privacy and dignity of my brother’s family was respected an honored.”

But while the family was relieved the legal process is over, Ron Cipriano said it did not bring closure.

“Our family has been through a horrible tragedy that we will live with for the rest of our lives. At the end of the day, Bob — our brother, father, neighbor, colleague, coach and friend — is still gone from our lives forever. His absence can never be replaced, and no trial will ever change that.”

Oakland County Prosecutor Jessica Cooper earlier refused a request by another Cipriano brother, Greg, that she allow Tucker Cipriano to plead to a lesser charge of second-degree murder to avoid a trial. Greg Cipriano, in news interviews, had said the murder was a “family matter.”

“Murder is never a family matter or a private matter,” Cooper said this afternoon. “It’s a public safety matter. We now have two convicted killers off the street, two killers who will spend the rest of their natural lives in prison.”